{"id":161526410,"date":"2010-02-13T12:26:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T12:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=161526410"},"modified":"2010-02-13T12:26:50","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T12:26:50","slug":"im-an-ignorant-driver-and-this-is-what-i-think-confessions-of-a-reckless-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=161526410","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m an ignorant driver and this is what I think (confessions of a reckless driver)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attention cyclists; we motorists are NOT responsible for your safety. Want to ride on roads or streets not wide enough for both you and motorized vehicles or ride on congested streets with motorized vehicles, YOU ASSUME THE RISKS. Stop crying for special protection laws. PAVED roads were made for high speed MOTORIZED vehicles, not slow-poke pedals.<br \/>\nTo the Legislature: you are setting up an (un)civil war between cyclists and motorized traffic of which the motorized car or truck will ALWAYS win. Stop putting more and more obstacles in the path of motorized traffic. Move over for this, move over for that. Pretty soon we motorists will nowhere else to drive if you keep squeezing us further off the pavement.<br \/>\n&#8211; Mark<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/weblogs.baltimoresun.com\/news\/local\/politics\/2010\/02\/senate_wants_drivers_to_move_o.html#comment-5934902\">https:\/\/weblogs.baltimoresun.com\/news\/local\/politics\/2010\/02\/senate_wants_drivers_to_move_o.html#comment-5934902<\/a>oldId.20100213122650468<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attention cyclists; we motorists are NOT responsible for your safety. Want to ride on roads or streets not wide enough for both you and motorized vehicles or ride on congested streets with motorized vehicles, YOU ASSUME THE RISKS. Stop crying for special protection laws. PAVED roads were made for high speed MOTORIZED vehicles, not slow-poke &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=161526410\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I&#8217;m an ignorant driver and this is what I think (confessions of a reckless driver)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161526410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161526410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161526410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161526410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161526410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161526410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161526410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}